Storing music in different locations

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I want to know if I could store music files in different top level folders?

I sync my music files with syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) from my main music directory (desktop) to my notebook and my raspberry pi.

Eventually I want to use the notebook for dj-ing. And I don’t need all files on the notebook so I thought, I could split up my music and store it in different folders.

This could be my directory tree

~/Music/Tangos
~/Music/Misc

Can I achieve such a layout with a configuration like this:

paths:
    default: Misc/$albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track $title
    singleton: Misc/Non-Album/$artist/$title
    comp: Misc/Compilations/$album%aunique{}/$track $title
    genre:Tango: Tangos/$albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track $title
    genre:Milonga: Tangos/$albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track $title
    genre:Vals: Tangos/$albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track $title

And if this is the correct configuration what is the appropriate command to split up the music collection?

Is it beet up?

Or should I simply move files with

beet move genre:Tango ~d ~/Music/Tangos

and beet will keep track of the files anyway?

But what happens when I import new files?

Any recommendations how to procede?

TIA
juh

2

You’ll just want to use beet move (no arguments) to move files around to match your new directory structure. Everything should work fine with new imports too.

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Thanks, a first try with -p shows reasonable results.

I can even change the beet directory in one run. :slight_smile:

I think I take a backup and will run beet move without -p.